Re: Mixer does not work

2005-01-22 Thread Paul Mather
On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 00:19:45 -0600, Adrian Patino II [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have both onboard sound and soundcard ### [EMAIL PROTECTED]:11:0: class=0x040100 card=0x80651102 chip=0x00021102 rev=0x0a hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Creative Labs'

Epson Perfection 2400 USB scanner support

2005-02-02 Thread Paul Mather
I'm looking to buy a scanner and was thinking about getting an Epson Perfection 2400 USB scanner. It is listed as having complete SANE support, but it is not listed as being supported in the uscanner(4) man page. According to a page (http://khk.net/sane/usb_scanner.html) on the SANE Epson

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as NetBSD!!!

2005-02-11 Thread Paul Mather
On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 12:04:34 -0600, Andrew L. Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 11 February 2005 08:14 am, Dag-Erling Smrgrav wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Imagine Linux dropping Tux for some meanlingless, lifeless logo? I'm glad you asked. Tux is a mascot, not a logo.

Re: Instead of freebsd.com, why not...

2005-02-12 Thread Paul Mather
On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 11:01:27 +0100, Anthony Atkielski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul Mather writes: The operating system is one thing; a certain level support is another. That's Free/Open Source software for you. Yes. And it's one of the factors that makes the open-source movement

Re: Instead of freebsd.com, why not...

2005-02-11 Thread Paul Mather
On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 03:54:27 +0100, Anthony Atkielski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC writes: This is also ridiculous. No CEO or CIO is going to give a RAT's ASS about what is said in a mailing list about a particular product. Probably. But the problem is that

Re: Instead of freebsd.com, why not...

2005-02-12 Thread Paul Mather
On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 21:25:36 +0100, Anthony Atkielski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul Mather writes: As I said, that's why you'd contract with one of those outfits in the Vendors section. If they can do the job. Since they didn't write the code, though, they aren't ultimately

Re: Grainy X Windows and KDE.

2005-02-17 Thread Paul Mather
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 23:25:05 -0600, Dmitri Furman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear FreeBSD experts. Your help with this would be greatly appreciated. I spent a week now trying to setup FreeBSD on my Dell Dimension 8200 Desktop. Most of the time was spent setting up Xorg to work. I have

Re: Accessing Windows XP Desktop (Home Edition) remotely

2005-03-22 Thread Paul Mather
On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 16:26:54 -0500 (EST), Ean Kingston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 22 March 2005 02:18 pm, Christopher Nehren wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2005-03-22, daniel scribbled these curious markings: security note: vnc is *not*

Re: Anthony's drive issues.Re: ssh password delay

2005-03-29 Thread Paul Mather
Duo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anyway, I think we should all do ourselves a favor, and kill this thread. I know it will be hard, Anthony will try really hard to say something even stupider, in a vain attempt to make us want to reply...but, there are a plethora of other things we could

Re: Replacing Bind8x with Bind9

2004-08-10 Thread Paul Mather
On Mon, 9 Aug 2004 22:36:54 -0700, Joshua Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How to I totaly replace Bind8x on my 5.2.1 system? I run BIND 9 chroot on a 5.2.1-RELEASE-p9 system. I installed it from ports (/usr/ports/dns/bind9). Basically, to replace the base BIND 8 installation, you need to

Re: ATA powermanagement and ATA spindown.. request (?)

2004-08-11 Thread Paul Mather
On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 19:13:08 +, heikki soerum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For countless years Linux, windows and several other OS for the Peasants has had powermanagement on their ATA drives... And countless times has my harddrives on my fileserver suffered the Click of Death Syndrome

Re: IMAP Prefrence

2004-08-11 Thread Paul Mather
On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 11:45:09 -0700 (PDT), Joshua Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to set up my mail server with Postfix and wish to use IMAP. I tried asking the postfix mailing list this question and did not receice and feedback. Does Postfix have built in IMAP support or do I

Re: tmpfs for FreeBSD?

2004-08-12 Thread Paul Mather
On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 00:53:15 -0500, Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the last episode (Aug 11), adp said: I'm looking for a ramdisk-style filesystem for FreeBSD that can be used for scratch space, e.g., tmpfs in Solaris. The filesystem should be able to grow and shrink in memory

Re: Running Mozilla FireBird 6.1.6 Under Linux Emulation On FreeBSD 4.10

2004-08-13 Thread Paul Mather
On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 04:03:01 +, Rob DeMarco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wanted to run Mozilla FireBird 6.1.6 under Linux emulation so that I could use the Flash plugin. I installed linux_base-6.1_6 from the 4-stable packages directory and downloaded FireBird. But FireBird required a

Re: Looking for commercial code gone open source

2004-08-13 Thread Paul Mather
On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 13:10:22 +0100, Jonathon McKitrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know where there are any web-accessible examples of large or medium sized commercial software products that have been open sourced? I'd like to see some examples of code that were not written from the

Re: Running Mozilla FireBird 6.1.6 Under Linux Emulation On FreeBSD 4.10

2004-08-14 Thread Paul Mather
On Sat, 2004-08-14 at 03:50, Rob DeMarco wrote: While I have some familiarity with the ports tree, I didn't install it this time because of limited disk space (though I suppose I could do a partial port-tree install). Also, my P150 makes compiles long and painful :) To avoid all that,

Re: Help me ObwanKnobi your my only hope.

2004-08-16 Thread Paul Mather
On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 14:11:14 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have spent many usless hours looking at Freebsd.org, google.com and yahoo.com in an attempt to find a ftpd that I can cap / choke the outgoing bandwith. Do you know of any such animals? Yes, ProFTPD (ftp/proftpd in ports)

Re: IP Filter on FreeBSD 5.2.1

2004-09-07 Thread Paul Mather
On Tue, 7 Sep 2004 22:12:23 +0100, Wayne Pascoe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 08:07:34PM +0200, Remko Lodder wrote: I think you missed this option: options PFIL_HOOKS # pfil(9) framework in your kernel config file.. Try it and see it's

Re: IP Filter on FreeBSD 5.2.1

2004-09-08 Thread Paul Mather
On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 02:12, Wayne Pascoe wrote: On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 05:50:59PM -0400, Paul Mather wrote: 20030925: Configuring a system to use IPFILTER now requires that PFIL_HOOKS also be explicitly configured. Previously this dependency was magically handled through

Re: backup strategies

2005-10-31 Thread Paul Mather
On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 18:59:21 +0100, Csaba Henk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 10:32:02AM -0600, Eric Schuele wrote: The online manual mentions it in 16.13. Wouldn't hurt for it to be in the man page as well. Oh, yeah, thanks. This makes things clear. I missed this

Re: backup strategies

2005-10-31 Thread Paul Mather
On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 13:53 -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Oct 31), Paul Mather said: The other thing to note about FreeBSD snapshots that I don't think has been mentioned is that they are only supported on UFS2 filesystems, meaning they are unavailable under FreeBSD 4.x

Re: Making APC 500 Back UPS (basic) work with FreeBSD

2006-02-21 Thread Paul Mather
Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Donald J. O'Neill wrote: On Tuesday 21 February 2006 08:26, Chuck Swiger wrote: [ ... ] No. If your UPS isn't smart and does not have an external USB or serial port, apcupsd has nothing to work with. As best I can tell from the OP's description,

Re: BIND9 REPLACE BASE BIND8

2004-09-15 Thread Paul Mather
On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 21:53:28 -0700 (PDT), borg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Joshua Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been having been having some issues with BIND that have been driving me up the wall. I believe I may have located the problem. I believe I had both BIND8 and BIND9

Re: DVD question...

2004-09-20 Thread Paul Mather
On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 22:09:31 -0400, Glenn Sieb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richard Lynch said the following on 9/19/2004 4:41 PM: But I'm having a dickens of a time finding something that will let me author DVDs. Any pointing in directions or help would be greatly appreciated! By

Re: Bind 9.3.0 startup failure

2004-09-23 Thread Paul Mather
On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 12:12:15 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /etc/defaults/rc.d contains: # # named. It may be possible to run named in a sandbox, man security for # details. # named_rcng=NO # XXX Temporary. Enable to use new rc #

Re: (g_)vinum]

2004-10-22 Thread Paul Mather
On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 10:55:37 +0200, Mark Frasa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2004.10.22 10:26:25 +, Mark Frasa wrote: On Thursday 21 October 2004 12:21, Mark Frasa wrote: can you or anyone tell me how to make gvinum load automatically? In /boot/loader.conf I set:

Re: ipfilter loading on 5.3

2004-11-08 Thread Paul Mather
On Mon, 8 Nov 2004 12:01:41 -0500, dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, I believe i am having a configuration error. I've got a new 5.3 box to which i'm atempting to get ipfilter going. I read the updated handbook and have added: ipfilter_enable=YES ipfilter_rules=/etc/ipf.rules

Re: Obtaining portsmanager meta package for alternate OS

2005-07-15 Thread Paul Mather
On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400 (EDT), Jacob A. Siehler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try running configure then make just like any other linux program and see if it compiles, if it doesn't let me know what the error is. I understand Mac OS X is based on FreeBSD, does it have FreeBSD's

Re: mkisofs and large files

2004-12-08 Thread Paul Mather
On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 04:08:12 +, RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been trying to burn a single large file (a 4.2 GB encrypted gbde filesystem within a file) to a DVD, but mkisofs tells me the file is too large. I looked on Google and found that mkisofs had a filesize limit of 2 GB,

Re: Typo in: cache-update (portindex) - hangs(?)

2004-12-13 Thread Paul Mather
On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 09:55:55 +0100, Christopher Illies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for your reply and sorry for the typo. Yes cache-init also took a couple of hours on my computer, but when it finished i got the command-promt back. But I am having problems with cache-update. I

Re: Un-GNOME-ing a FreeBSD box

2004-12-12 Thread Paul Mather
On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 18:54:18 -0700, Brett Glass [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Again, I really find it hard to believe that there would be no provision for deleting a port AND the ports on which it depends cleanly. I tend to use a minimal number of ports and packages, and so didn't realize that

Re: Un-GNOME-ing a FreeBSD box

2004-12-12 Thread Paul Mather
On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 16:14 -0700, Brett Glass wrote: At 10:56 AM 12/12/2004, Paul Mather wrote: On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 18:54:18 -0700, Brett Glass [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Again, I really find it hard to believe that there would be no provision for deleting a port AND the ports

Re: FreeBSD server(s) to backup multi-platform systems remotely

2004-12-30 Thread Paul Mather
On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 11:13:54 -0500, Danny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From a backup point of view, my goal... On a nightly and automated basis - to take a snapshot of all new and modified data from a FreeBSD server and Windows server. Then compress and hopefully encrypt the data and send it to a

Re: One or Four?

2012-02-20 Thread Paul Mather
On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 08:39:53, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: On 17/02/2012 22:17, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Feb 17, 2012, at 2:05 PM, Robison, Dave wrote: We'd like a show of hands to see if folks prefer the old style default with 4 partitions and swap, or the newer

Re: gmirror losing drive

2005-04-19 Thread Paul Mather
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 14:38:33 +0200, Andrea Venturoli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Danny Howard wrote: I'm not entirely sure on this one ... you have RTFM? Obviously. I started with the tutorial at http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/, but I read the whole manual before setting it up.

Re: gmirror on local + nfs volume

2005-04-19 Thread Paul Mather
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 16:07:29 +0200, Feczak Szabolcs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have read about this some months ago on the list, but I can not find it now. Can someone explain how to make a Geom mirror with one local and one remote component ? (so basicly syncronize two volumes between

Netgear FA511 + Linksys BEFSR41 v.2 = 6.1-STABLE woes

2006-08-31 Thread Paul Mather
Someone recently gave me a Linksys BEFSR41 v.2 10/100 four-port switch/NAT router. I had previously been using an eight-port 10baseT hub. To take advantage of the higher bandwidth now available on my LAN, I bought some NICs from eBay to upgrade the 10baseT ones to 100baseT. Unfortunately, I'm

Re: cups 1.2.2 and parallel port printers

2006-09-07 Thread Paul Mather
On Thu, 7 Sep 2006 08:42:11 -0400, Robert Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: anybody seen this behavior before? or have a clue? I don't know if this is your problem, but I have seen similar issues. _In my case_, CUPS as ported does not like the

Re: Vinum migration 4.x-5.4

2005-08-19 Thread Paul Mather
On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 11:01:55 -0500, Robin Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There seems to be a consensus in the references I've found that vinum is completely broken on 5.4 and that gvinum/geom_vinum is not ready for production use. As it seems to me, this means that anyone using 4.11 (say)

Re: pf suggestions for paced attack

2010-05-04 Thread Paul Mather
On Mon, 3 May 2010 09:41:10 -0500, John j...@starfire.mn.org wrote: The script kiddies have apparently figured out that we use some time-window sensitivity in our adaptive filtering. From sshd, I've been seeing reverse mapping checking getaddrinfo ... failed and from ftpd (when I have the

Quantum SuperLoader 3 under Bacula on FreeBSD 8

2010-05-13 Thread Paul Mather
I am currently assembling a quote for an LTO-4 tape backup system. So far, I am looking at using a 16-slot Quantum SuperLoader 3 with LTO-4HH drive as the tape unit. Married to this will be a server to act as the backup server that will drive the tape unit using Bacula to manage backups. The

Is pkgng supposed to upgrade a dependency of a locked package?

2013-07-18 Thread Paul Mather
I am using pkgng 1.1.4_1 on RELENG_9 (r252725), operating on a local repo I maintain using poudriere 3.0.4. Recently, I wanted to upgrade all packages on a client except two whose update I want to defer for now as they potentially impact locally-developed applications. I figured I would use